How to test a consumer product (telephone)

When you are an industrial company intending to launch a new product for a consumer market, you’d better think about everything and make sure that it will sustain all the conditions absolutely improperly hard that customers will submit it to (everything indicates that you and me, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Consumer, are ugly brutes).

In the activities of their new mobile phone, Google and HTC unveiled several videos giving us a peek looking (somewhat simplified but still real) into what is done to produce a modern mobile phone. Admire it and remember what the phone was tested against before bringing back your broken phone to the warranty department and claiming that your younger son just ate the corner of the display when -actually- you drove over it with your car…

See also:

• Nexus One design
• Display and 3D framework
• Nexus One manufacturing (nice shooting of industrial equipment)
• Nexus One: Day One (advertisement)